Surgical Management of Movement Disorders PDF

Preface

Movement disorders represent major causes of neurological disability and eventual mortality affecting millions of people across the globe. From Parkinson's disease to spasticity, these neurological disorders devastate young and old worldwide. While progress continues to be made toward effective treatment, many limitations remain.

The combination of the limitation of medical therapy and surgical technological advances have, however, led to an exponential growth in functional neurosurgery in the last 5 years. Surgery represents an alternative where there existed only finite treatment options before. This field is developing rapidly with emerging novel therapies as well as evolving indications for existing procedures.

We intended this book to be a thorough review of the surgical treatments currently available for various movement disorders, with an emphasis on surgical indications and results of surgery. It should be of utmost interest to practitioners and trainees in the clinical neurosciences (neurology/neurosurgery) who want a better understanding of candidates for movement disorder surgery, the current surgical procedures, the effected results of surgery, and the complication rate of these procedures. Our goal was to summarize the current status of the field as well as make projections for the next few years.